The riddle of tacit knowledge

Tacit knowledge is a riddle. On the one hand, it is tacit: it cannot be put into words. This in turn suggests that it is not articulable. It...

INPP: International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry

Without drawing very much attention to itself, I see that the INPP website has slowly been growing over the last couple of years. It contai...

The intelligibility of delusion

By chance (and further to my last two posts), there is a review article by Richard Gipps in Current Opinion in Psychiatry available (for th...

Understanding, rationality and reasons

As a postscript to my last post, I notice that Richard Gipps has a further entry which questions a very close link - I may have been more e...

"Propriety and yet strict meaninglessness"

There has been an interesting debate going on on two blogs ( here and here ) which focus on the philosophy of psychiatry. One passage in a ...

So good they named it twice

Having a long standing interest (see eg here , here and here ) in the way that cover versions of songs or artworks stand in dialogue to ori...

Professors

I’ve been asked to serve on the professorial appointments committee of the University of Wolverhampton. After the first such meeting, I was ...